[Richmond] Thursday, August 24, 1775.
An Ordinance appointing a Committee of Safety, for the more effectual carrying into execution the several rules and regulations established by this Convention for the protection of this colony, having been fairly transcribed, was read the third time, and the blanks therein filled up.
Resolved, that the said Ordinance do pass.
And in order to obtain the most authentick intelligence in all matters of importance, and to avoid false alarms, Be it further ordained, That the Committee of Safety shall keep up a correspondence with Committees of the several Counties and Corporations, the commanding officers, as well of the regulars as the minute men, and shall have full power to appoint a sufficient number of look-outs and advice boats, at proper stations, and to engage necessary expresses, in different parts of the Country, to be in constant readiness to set out on the shortest notice, and shall issue their warrants, from time to time, to the treasurer, for paying the same.